Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN)

For those of you interested in the study of networked data, I would like to bring your attention to the "Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN)", a workshop organized by my colleagues Sinan Aral, Foster Provost, and Arun Sundararajan. It will take place on September 25-26, 2009. From the description:

The purpose of WIN is to bring together leading researchers studying ‘information in networks’ – its distribution, its diffusion, its value, and its influence on social and economic outcomes – in order to lay the foundation for ongoing relationships and to build a lasting multidisciplinary research community.

I should emphasize that the phrase "bring together leading researchers" is not a the standard template used in many call for papers. The lineup of speakers is truly outstanding! I would be very hard pressed to find any conference that would have such a lineup of invited speakers:

• Lada Adamic, University of Michigan
• Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, University of Notre Dame, Northeastern University
• Ronald Burt, University of Chicago
• Damon Centola, MIT
• Pedro Domingos , University of Washington
• Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon
• James Fowler, University of California, San Diego
• Sanjeev Goyal, University of Cambridge
• Bernardo Huberman, HP Labs
• Matthew Jackson, Stanford University
• Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania
• Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
• Rachel Kranton, Duke University
• David Lazer, Harvard University
• Jure Leskovec, Stanford
• Michael Macy, Cornell University
• Alex (Sandy) Pentland, MIT
• Duncan Watts, Yahoo! Research

It is really as good as it gets. If you are interested in networked data and can be in New York on September 25-26, then this is an event that you must attend!